The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Chester A. Arthur
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  2. Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends. - Michael Bassey Johnson

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More Quotes By Chester A. Arthur
  1. I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

  2. The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

  3. As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

  4. The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

  5. Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

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